Cranbrook Institute of Science

Join 200,000 plus visitors who every year appreciate the value of the Institute's fascinating exhibits, hands-on activities, and planetarium shows.

You can enjoy a picnic on the lovely grounds, or a snack in the cafe. At the Institute you will discover family-friendly events, up-to-date scientific information, and some pretty outstanding sights. From sparkling diamonds to the towering T. rex, to live animals in the Bat Zone, you will find something of interest.

The museum's exhibitions are housed in 11 permanent galleries including Our Dyanmic Earth featuring Life Changes Over Time, Ice Ages Come and Go and Mastodons Did Not Survive; Wasserman Hall featuring Reading Objects, When Worlds Collide: The 18th and 19th Century Great Lakes Fur Trade and Peoples of the Woodlands: Objects of Great Lakes Native America; Blues Life Lab; Emerging Technology Hall; Woodlands Den; Motion Gallery; Every Rock Has a Story; Astronomy Lobby; Mineral Study Gallery; Acheson Light Lab; Water Passage featuring Water is Like Nothing Else.

There is also a changing exhibition hall, an outdoor science garden, nature trails, a state-of-the-art planetarium, an observatory and a nature center currently leased to the Organization for Bat Conservation. The major overarching theme to the exhibitions is the interconnectedness in nature. This idea is introduced to visitors in a unique, multi-media theater called the Connections Theater.

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